Ms. Pia Dorfinger is the director for start-up ecosystems at the German Energy Agency and has worked in the international energy transition and climate change sector for 15 years. She is currently in charge of dena's national and international start-up projects, amongst them the Start Up Energy Transition (SET) Global Innovation Platform where every year over 400 start-ups from all around the world apply for the SET Award. Before heading dena's start-up and innovation activities she was a senior expert for renewable energies at the German Energy Agency with a focus on international and EU funded projects. Prior to dena Ms. Dorfinger has worked in the field of renewable energies and climate change in the private and NGO sector in Austria, the UK and the Philippines.